Isotope hydrology research group
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Keyword
isotope hydrogeology
groundwater
paleoclimatology
polar research
CO₂ and hydrogen storage
Baltic Artesian Basin (BAB)
Overview
The Division of Isotope Geology was formed inthe early 1970s with the aim to study the historyof Quaternary glaciations and of using isotopicand geochemical indicators in polar ice-cores.Over the years, the division’s main researchareas have been expanded to hydrogeology ofthe Baltic Artesian Basin, as well as CO2 andhydrogen capture and storage.The group holds a modern analytical facilitywith two isotope-ratio mass-spectrometers withsample preparation lines, a laser spectrometerfor analysing oxygen and hydrogen isotopes fromwater, and an ion chromatograph.
Important results
The main results in 2021 include concluding apaper about the origin and evolution of groundwaters in the Baltic sedimentary basin and basement rocks (Vaikmäe et al. 2021). Activities under the CCUS and hydrogen storage topics wererelated to the Horizon2020 project Cleanker andERASMUS+ project CIRCEXTIN. As a result,12 Heidelberg Cement Group and Buzzi Unicemcement plants were recommended for integrationinto the 12 largerst CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage) cluster projects worldwide.Two Baltic onshore and offshore CCUS scenariosfor the largest cement and energy producers inthe region were proposed. Our onshore CCUSscenario includes CO2 emissions from six largestCO2 producers from Estonia and Latvia, CO2 mineral carbonation of Estonian oil shale ash andpipeline transport and storage of captured CO2into the North-Blidene structure in Latvia. Atthe EU Emission Allowance Price 40 €/t CO2 and50 €/t for precipitated CaCO3 the CCUS scenariocould be beneficial for three Eesti Energia andLatvenergo TEC-2 power plants (PP).
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Publications related to the research group
- Vaikmäe, R., Pärn, J., Raidla, V., Ivask, J., Kaup, E., Martma, T. et al. Late Pleistocene and Holocene groundwater flow history in the Baltic Artesian Basin : a synthesis of numerical models and hydrogeochemical data // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2021) vol. 70, 3, p. 152-164 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2021.11 - Young, S.A., Benayoun, E., Kozik, N.P., Hints, O., Martma, T., Bergström, S.M., Owens, J.D. Marine redox variability from Baltica during extinction events in the latest Ordovician–early Silurian // Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2020) vol. 554, art. 109792.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109792 - Kreitsmann, T., Lepland, A., Bau, M., Martma, T. et al. Oxygenated conditions in the aftermath of the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event: The carbon isotope and rare earth element signatures of the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, Russia // Precambrian research (2020) vol. 347, art. 105855, 16 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105855 - Campeau, A., Soerensen, A., Martma, T. et al. Controls on the 14C‐content of dissolved and particulate organic carbon mobilized across the Mackenzie River basin, Canada // Global biogeochemical cycles (2020) vol. 34, 12, 15 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006671 - Fransson, A., Chierici, M., Nomura, D., Martma, T. et al. Influence of glacial water and carbonate minerals on wintertime sea-ice biogeochemistry and the CO2 system in an Arctic fjord in Svalbard // Annals of glaciology (2020) vol. 61, 83, p. 320-340 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.52 - Koit, O., Barberá, J. A., Marandi, A., Terasmaa, J., Kiivit, I.-K., Martma, T. Spatiotemporal assessment of humic substance-rich stream and shallow karst aquifer interactions in a boreal catchment of northern Estonia // Journal of hydrology (2020) vol. 580, art. 124238, 18 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124238 - Barbaro, E., Koziol, K., Björkman, M.P., Martma, T. et al. Measurement report: Spatial variations in ionic chemistry and water-stable isotopes in the snowpack on glaciers across Svalbard during the 2015–2016 snow accumulation season // Atmospheric chemistry and physics (2021) vol. 21, 4, p. 3163-3180.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3163-2021 - Stankevica, K., Vincevica-Gaile, Z., Klavins, M., Stivrinš, N., Kaup, E. et al. Accumulation of metals and changes in composition of freshwater lake organic sediments during the Holocene // Chemical geology (2020) vol. 539, art. 119502, 14 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119502 - Bowman, C. N., Them II, T. R., Knight, M. D., Kaljo, D., Eriksson, M. E., Hints, O., Martma, T., Owens, J. D., Young, S. A. A multi-proxy approach to constrain reducing conditions in the Baltic Basin during the late Silurian Lau carbon isotope excursion // Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (2021) vol. 581, art. 110624.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110624 - Zdanowicz, C., Gallet, J.-C., Björkman, M.P., Martma, T. et al. Elemental and water-insoluble organic carbon in Svalbard snow: a synthesis of observations during 2007–2018 // Atmospheric chemistry and physics (2021) vol. 21, 4, p. 3035-3057 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3035-2021 - Jefanova, O., Mažeika, J., Petrošius, R., Martma, T., Liblik, T. et al. Baltic Sea water tritium and stable isotopes in 2016-2017 // Isotopes in environmental and health studies (2020) vol. 56, 2, p. 193-204.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2020.1715969 - Casillas-Trasvina, A., Rogiers, B., Beerten, K., Pärn, J., Wouters, L., Walraevens, K. Using helium-4, tritium, carbon-14 and other hydrogeochemical evidence to evaluate the groundwater age distribution : the case of the Neogene aquifer, Belgium // Journal of hydrology X (2022) vol. 17, art. 100132, 19 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydroa.2022.100132 - Vallner, L., Ivask, J., Marandi, A., Vaikmäe, R., Raidla, V., Raukas, A. Transient 3D simulation of 18O concentration by codes MODFLOW2005 and MT3DMS in a regionalscale aquifer system : an example from the Estonian Artesian Basin // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2020) vol. 69, 3, p. 154–174 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2020.11 - Shogenov, K., Shogenova, A. Innovative synergy CCUS and renewable energy project offshore Baltic using CO2 emissions from the cement industry // Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021. : SSRN, 2021. 11 p.: ill.
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3812387 - Shogenova, A., Nordbäck, N., Sopher, D., Shogenov, K., Ivask, J. et al. Carbon neutral Baltic Sea region by 2050 : myth or reality? // Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021. : SSRN, 2021. 12 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3817722 https://ssrn.com/abstract=3817722 - Shogenov, K., Shogenova, A., Šliaupa, S. Underground hydrogen storage in the Baltic Countries : future outlook for Latvia and Estonia // 83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, Jun 2022. : European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, 2022. p. 1-5.
https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202210772 - Chen, J., Haldorsen, S., Vaikmäe, R. Groundwater and global palaeoclimate signals // Quaternary international (2020) vol. 547, p. 1-6 : phot.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.028 - Shogenova, A., Shogenov, K., Uibu, M., Kuusik, R., Simmer, K., Canonico, F. Techno-economic modelling of the Baltic CCUS onshore scenario for the cement industry supported by CLEANKER project // Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021. : SSRN, 2021. 13 p. : ill.
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3817710 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3817710 - Shogenova, A., Shogenov, K., Ivask, J., Habicht, G. et al. Integration of Buzzi and Heidelberg cement plants into the first operating and planned CCUS Cluster Projects Worldwide, using CLEANKER Project GIS Database // Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021. : SSRN, 2021. 12 p. : ill.
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3813982 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3813982 - Shogenov, K., Shogenova, A., Šliaupa, S. Underground hydrogen storage in the Baltic Countries : future outlook for Lithuania // 83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, Jun 2022. : European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, 2022. p. 1-5.
https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202210707 - Šogenova, A., Šogenov K., Mariani, M., Gastaldi, D., Pellegrino, G. North Italian CCS scenario for the cement industry // Chemical engineering transactions (2022) vol. 96, p. 115-120 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3303/CET2296020 - Kõrgmaa, V., Ruberg, S. Taming nitrate pollution in urban stream // Proceedings 39th IAHR World Congress. : International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022. p. 1145-1152.
https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221307 - Kaljo, D., Martma, T., Märss, T., Nestor, V-K., Viira, V. A bio- and chemostratigraphic search for the Mid-Ludfordian Carbon Isotope Excursion interval in the Ludlow of the Ohesaare core, Estonia // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2022) vol. 71, 1, p. 44-60 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2022.04 - Raidla, V., Kaup, E., Hade, S., Ivask, J. Soesoo, A. Geochemical processes controlling ionic composition of water in the catchments of lakes Saana and Saanalampi in the Kilpisjärvi area of North Scandinavia // Geosciences (2019) vol. 9, 4, art. 174, 18 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9040174 - Raidla, V., Pärn, J., Aeschbach-Hertig, W., Czuppon, G., Ivask, J. et al. Intrusion of saline water into a coastal aquifer containing palaeogroundwater in the Viimsi Peninsula in Estonia // Geosciences (2019) vol. 9, 1, art. 47, 25 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9010047 - Lepane, V., Künnis-Beres, K., Kaup, E., Sharma, B. Dissolved organic matter, nutrients, and bacteria in Antarctic soil core from Schirmacher Oasis // Journal of soils and sediments (2018) vol. 18, 8, p. 2715-2726 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-018-1913-7 - Vega, C. P., Isaksson, E., Schlosser, E., Divine, D., Martma, T. et al. Variability of sea salts in ice and firn cores from Fimbul Ice Shelf, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica // The Cryosphere (2018) vol. 12, 5, p. 1681-1697 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1681-2018 - Pärn, J., Raidla, V., Ivask, J., Kaup, E., Martma, T., Vaikmäe, R. et al. Dating of glacial palaeogroundwater in the Ordovician-Cambrian aquifer system, northern Baltic Artesian Basin // Applied geochemistry (2019) vol. 102, p. 64-76 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.01.004 - Raidla, V., Pärn, J., Schloemer, S., Aeschbach, V., Czuppon, G., Ivask, J., Marandi, A., Sepp, H., Vaikmäe, R., Kirsimäe, K. Origin and formation of methane in groundwater of glacial origin from the Cambrian-Vendian aquifer system in Estonia // Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (2019) vol. 251, p. 247-264 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.029 - Sterckx, A., Lemieux, J-M., Vaikmäe, R. Assessment of paleo-recharge under the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet and its impact on regional groundwater flow in the northern Baltic Artesian Basin using numerical model // Hydrogeology journal (2018) vol. 26, 8, p. 2793−2810 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-018-1838-7 - Street-Perrott, F.A., Holmes, J.A., Robertson, I., Koff, T., Martma, T. et al. The Holocene isotopic record of aquatic cellulose from Lake Äntu Sinijärv, Estonia: Influence of changing climate and organic-matter sources // Quaternary science reviews (2018) vol. 193, p. 68-83 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.010 - Pärn, J., Affolter, S., Ivask, J.; Kirsimäe, K., Martma, T., Raidla, V., Vaikmäe, R. et al. Redox zonation and organic matter oxidation in palaeogroundwater of glacial origin from the Baltic Artesian Basin // Chemical geology (2018) vol. 488, p. 149-161 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.027 - Crémière, A., Chand, S., Sahy, D., Thorsnes, T., Martma, T., Noble, S.R., Pedersen, J.H., Brunstad, H., Lepland, A. Structural controls on seepage of thermogenic and microbial methane since the last glacial maximum in the Harstad Basin, southwest Barents Sea // Marine and Petroleum Geology (2018) Vol. 98, p. 569-581.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.07.010 - Zdanowicz, C., Karlsson, P., Bekholmen, I., Roach, P., Martma, T. et al. Snowmelt, glacial and atmospheric sources of mercury to a subarctic mountain lake catchment, Yukon, Canada // Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (2018) vol. 238, p. 374−393 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.06.003 - Hong, W., Lepland, A., Himmler, T., Martma, T. et al. Discharge of meteoric water in the eastern Norwegian Sea since the last glacial period // Geophysical research letters (2019) vol. 46, 14, p. 8194-8204 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084237 - Bowman, C. N., Young, S, A., Kaljo, D., Hints, O., Martma, T. et al. Linking the progressive expansion of reducing conditions to a stepwise mass extinction event in the late Silurian oceans // Geology (2019) vol. 47, 10, p. 968-972 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G46571.1 - Himmler, T., Sahy, D., Martma, T., Lepland, A. et al. A 160,000-year-old history of tectonically controlled methane seepage in the Arctic // Science advances (2019) vol. 5, 8, art. eaaw1450, 8 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw1450 TTÜ geoloogid: merepõhjast lekkinud metaani ja jääaegade vahel on seos - Šogenov, K., Šogenova, A. Cost-competitive and self-supporting geothermal energy, CO2-EOR and CO2 storage concept : case study of the E6 structure in the Baltic Sea // 14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference Melbourne 21-26 October 2018 (GHGT-14). [S.l.] : SSRN, 2019. 8 p. : ill.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3366151 - Lutyński, M., Murphy, M., Shogenov, K., Shogenova, A., Wolf, K.-H., Soleymani Shishvan, M., Ortega, M.F., García-Martínez, M.J., Mora, P., Mazurek, M. Fostering circular economy approach in extractive industry-related study programs – the CIRCEXTIN project // IOP conference series : earth and environmental science (2023) vol. 1132, 1, art. 012007, 6 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1132/1/012007 - Pipira, D., Ķeipāne, L., Stinkulis, Ģ., Vircava, I., Martma, T. Dolocretes in the uppermost Famennian to Mississippian siliciclastic deposits (Šķervelis Formation, Latvia) // Estonian journal of earth sciences (2023) vol. 72, 2, p. 211-225.
https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2023.86